All Jammu & Kashmir Patriotic Peoples Front

All Jammu & Kashmir Patriotic Peoples Front

All Jammu & Kashmir Patriotic Peoples Front, a political party in Jammu and Kashmir. The group is a pro-Indian faction, linked to the so-called "counter-insurgents" (paramilitaries). Muslim Mujahedin was an islamist guerrilla group, that turned themselves in to the government in 1995 and developed cooperation with the Indian army. Muslim Mujahedin had been formed as a splinter group of Hizb-ul-Mujahedin in 1993. Patriotic Peoples Front was formed by Muslim Mujahedin as a structure for contesting elections. [http://milligazette.com/Archives/01072001/13.htm Jolt to counter insurgency, The Milli Gazette, Vol. 2 No. 13 ] ]

The forces of Muslim Mujahedin were demobilzed around 1997-1998, but later parts of the group reorganized.fact |date=May 2007

After 1997 PPF supported Farooq Abdullah's Jammu & Kashmir National Conference government in Kashmir.fact |date=May 2007

In the Lok Sabha elections 1999 the leader of PPF Ghulam Nabi Mir was a candidate in the constituency of Anantnag. He got 1 500 votes (1,46%). [ [http://www.rediff.com/election/1999/sep/28anant.htm Rediff On The NeT: Anantnag may see low voter turnout ] ] [ [http://archive.eci.gov.in/ge1999/pollupd/pc/states/s09/pconst03.htm General Elections 1999 - Constituency wise detail for 3-Anantnag Constituency of JAMMU & KASHMIR ] ]

In 2001 the PPF leader and Muslim Mujahedin chief commander Ghulam Nabi Mir was killed.

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